Bath-tub.



.No. 889,979. PATENTED JUNE 9', 1908.

E. H. SLOMAN.

BATH TUB.

APPLICATION FILED APR.15, 1907.

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EUGENE II. SLOMAN, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, COMPANY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN,

ASSIGN-OR TO SEAMLESS STEEL BATH TUB A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

BATH-TUB Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Tune 9, 1908.

Application filed April 15, 1907. Serial No. 368,249.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE H. SLoMAN, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State ofMichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBath-Tubs, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention relates to new and useful improvements in sheet metal bathtubs, and consists in the means of attaching the leg to the tub by meansof integral flanges, ribs, or lugs, struck up or peeled up from thesurface of the metal in the tub, as more fully hereinafter described andparticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section through a portion of asheet metal bath tub, showing the leg attached thereto by my improvedmeans; Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line e ic of Fig. 1.

Sheet metal bath tubs of the type which are of ordinary porcelain andsold for house use, being a new article of manufacture, there has verylittle been done in the way of attaching the leg to such a tub.

Various parties have experimented during the past year with thisproblem, and quite a number of means of attachment have been suggested,all of which have some serious objection. My invention avoids the use ofextra parts, does not damage the tub, and forms a cheap and expeditioussecuring means for the leg, the securing devices being integral portionsof the sheet metal of the tub itself.

A represents the sheet metal tub, showing a portion of the side and aportion of the bottom, thereof at the point where the leg is attached.This is ordinarily made of about one-eighth inch stock. On the bottom ofthe tub, at the point where the leg is to be attached, I press up or cutup from the surface of the metal integral lugs or flanges, which formthe securing means for the leg. In the particular embodiment of myinvention here in shown, I have illustrated two flanges, a, squeezed upby dies from the surface of the tub, and bent over towards each other toform between a substantially dovetail groove, in which the horizontaltongue B of the leg C may engage, the sides of this tongue beingcorrespondingly beveled to fit in the dovetail groove thus formed. Atthe end of the tongue B, and opposite the ends of the flanges a, Iprovide an aperture 1), into which a pin may be driven, which willprevent the endwise disengagement of the leg from the tub. The leg, asis usual, is provided with the upward extension D engaging the side ofthe tub, preventing its disengagement inwardly and aiding in supportingthe surface upon which the leg rests. While this is a desired andpreferred means of attaching the leg to the tub, it is obvious thatother ways of attaching the leg would suggest themselves to mechanics,embodying integral flanges struck up from the surface of the tub, and Ido not desire to be limited to this particular construction, asI'believe my invention includes any means of attaching the leg to thetub, through the medium of integral lugs struck up from the surface ofthe sheet metal of the tub itself.

What I claim as my invention is,

1. The combination with a sheet metal bath tub and its leg, of anintegral outstanding flange forced up from the surface of the bottomthereof, and forming the means for holding the leg to the tub.

2. The combination with a sheet metal bath tub and its leg, of aplurality of securing flanges forced up from the surface of the bottomthereof, and with which a portion of the leg engages, and is secured tothe tub thereby.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EUGENE H. SLOMAN.

Witnesses:

AMELIA WILLIAMs, JAMES P. BARRY.

